"Do not do that anymore"~gym owner to yours truly...no more HIIT Cardio!?!

"Do not do that anymore"~gym owner to yours truly...no more HIIT Cardio!?!

So today at my gym which is a decently hardcore place, I was told to no longer do HIIT cardio on the eliptical by the gym owner. Yes that's right. I explained the only reason I do it on the elliptical is because the treadmills in the gym only go up to 10mph, which is hardly a sprint. Apparently he said that I personally have damaged 2 elliptical by doing HIIT, which is complete bs considering I use the same one every time i do it (the gym is empty when I go.) This is now the second gym where I have been told I can not do hiit. I am PISSED big time as I hate cardio especially slow steady state cardio. Anyways just felt like ranting.

I was told at my gym just today by a trainer to, "Stop banging the weights so loudly, as members are complaining". Guess what exercise I was doing: Deadlifts! I was simply doing the exercise, and the weights clanking on the ground was the complaint! You have got to be ****ing kidding ****ing me with that bull****!

It is bs. This guy has watched me to the same goddamn workout for the past 3 months. It is not like the treadmill either where you have to manually adjust the speed, on the elipt. you just GO FASTER. Luckily my membership runs out in another month and I can jump ship.

I feel you, brother. Did you ever try doing HIIT on the treadmill...but at an incline as well?

Something I do...is walk up at the highest incline possible...at about 3.5 mph. On the treadmills at the gym I use atm, the max incline is 15, in increments of .5 . Ever other minute, I alternate with carrying extra weight. 30-50lb dumbells forces you to work REALLY hard and gets that heart rate going FAST. I start sweating bullets.

Anyway, just an idea to get this dude off of your back until you find a new gym to do your thing. Good luck man.

I was told at my gym just today by a trainer to, "Stop banging the weights so loudly, as members are complaining". Guess what exercise I was doing: Deadlifts! I was simply doing the exercise, and the weights clanking on the ground was the complaint! You have got to be ****ing kidding ****ing me with that bull****!

Yeah, I've gotten that before too. But what I usually get now is "Sir, you are intimidating the other members." Personally, I feel that is a real accomplishment - the people surrounding me at the gym need to see what a real, taxing routine is, and if it scares 'em, they can all go join "Curves", the men too!
I mean it's not like I'm screaming or anything, just lifting heavy and agressively, makin a grunt here and there.

As the HIIT thing, that is just stupid. You're paying to use their equipment - if it can't handle basic fluctuations in speed, they bought low quality stuff and that is hardly your fault.

Just go break some other equipment and p!ss in the showers, that will show em.....

Seriously just lay off for a week and then just start doing it again. I have been told all kinds of stuff that I can not do in my gym and it usually blows over. If you want to switch it up just do some HIIT with exercises like dumbbell swings, power cleans, jumps, etc. Pretty much anything explosive exercise will give you the same effect and I bet will get you working a lot harder. The change of pace my be a nice break for you and get the gym guys off of your back. If that fails just do what I did, start training at a garage gym and buy your self some GPP stuff like a sled or farmers handles......

It is bs. This guy has watched me to the same goddamn workout for the past 3 months. It is not like the treadmill either where you have to manually adjust the speed, on the elipt. you just GO FASTER. Luckily my membership runs out in another month and I can jump ship.

I was told at my gym just today by a trainer to, "Stop banging the weights so loudly, as members are complaining". Guess what exercise I was doing: Deadlifts! I was simply doing the exercise, and the weights clanking on the ground was the complaint! You have got to be ****ing kidding ****ing me with that bull****!

If people complain about :dl:, then you start doing :clean:,
... then they'll wish they kept their mouths shut

yeah, if your membership is about to run out, go somewhere else where you don't have to deal with that garbage if somewhere else is reasonably within distance. it sounds cliche, but if you have options your vote is with your dollar.

Why not just do HIIT on a football track somewhere? I have a personal vendetta against ellpitcal machines.

Similar thing happened to me though, i was using one of the stationary bikes for HIIT, it was rocking a little, it didn't fall over though, and the manager told me I had to stop doing it. It's really BS when they target guys that are doing genuine athletic routines but don't go to the guy thats using a machine wrong, or doing bicep curls in the power rack.

Bro if I were you I would wait till my last day of my membership and then go pi ss all over the locker room floor, then go take a shi t on the owners desk when he is sittin there on the phone, and then go do some HITT cardio. When ur done pi ss on the machine. Tht will teach his a$$

The old manager at the gym i go to was a total ****. He was in the job 2 weeks before he started saying how the free weight bench press was against health and safety. Wtf?! Apparently we needed a spotter everytime incase someone injured themselves.

He even said he didn't know how they had got away with having weights over 22lbs (10kg) They only went up to 55lbs! The gym across the road had weights up to 88lbs though. The guy was a total fud! In the end he got rid of the weights.

We went to the local council and spoke to the health and safety dude and he said it was a load of crap. one guy was tempted to put a 55lbs plate through his car door haha Got the weights back in the end and the manager left.

Now my m8 is sleeping with the new manager and we got ourselves dumbbells up to 110lbs

ďWe are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit.Ē

Why not just do HIIT on a football track somewhere? I have a personal vendetta against ellpitcal machines.

Similar thing happened to me though, i was using one of the stationary bikes for HIIT, it was rocking a little, it didn't fall over though, and the manager told me I had to stop doing it. It's really BS when they target guys that are doing genuine athletic routines but don't go to the guy thats using a machine wrong, or doing bicep curls in the power rack.

hey i do that sometimes or on the squat rack because theres nowhere else to set the barbell. granted if i see someone who wants to use it i'll move cause i'm not a moron... but 90% of the people at the gym don't do legs anyway so i'm usually safe

Yeah, and those ppl that grab dumbells and stand RIGHT IN FRONT of them to do their curls, so no one else can get any of the others around them til the back the f*ck up or they are done. That drives me nuts! Since I can't get to the spot where I grabbed my dumbells from, I just set my sh*t next to them (literally next to their feet) and move on and they get the hint.

Exactly. I used to just do HIIT on a treadmill, between 12-15mph in one minute intervals, but these treads only go up to 10mph. Trust me i dont even like the elliptical, just doing it out of necessity at the moment.

I love how people looked at me like i was f'in retarded goin all out on the eliptical. Guess its back to high rep squats for cardio.

have you ever been doing dumb bell presses on a bench and got up to get heavier weights only to turn around and see that someone has planted themselves next to your bench and are doing curls in your arm span? I just sit there and wait until they move then make them feel like a jackass by continuing to bench press after they move and by making sure that they were in my way.

There was a guy at a gym that I used to go to who would load up everything he was doing with as much weight as possible. I am talking like a 515lb bench press. He would arch his back to the sky, and lift that sh*t maybe a quarter inch, and put it back down. He would then get up and flex and make faces in the mirror. Hilarious stuff. He did this for EVERY SINGLE exercise.